Nick O’Donohoe CMG
Chief Executive Officer
Nick O’Donohoe joined British International Investment as its Chief Executive in June 2017 and is also a member of the British International Investment Board.
Nick was previously a Senior Adviser to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he specialised in the use of blended finance models to support the work of the Foundation. Before taking this role, Nick co-founded Big Society Capital with Sir Ronald Cohen. Big Society Capital is an independent financial institution established by the UK Government as ‘the world’s first social investment bank’ and is capitalised with unclaimed UK bank accounts and investment by the largest UK banks. Nick served as its CEO from 2011 to 2015.
Previously, Nick worked at JP Morgan, latterly as Global Head of Research. He was a member of the Management Committee of the Investment Bank and the Executive Committee of JP Morgan Chase, as well as the senior sponsor for JP Morgan’s Social Finance Unit. Nick co-authored Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class, published by JP Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation in November 2010. Before JP Morgan, Nick spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs.
Nick served as Chairman of the UK Dormant Assets Commission, which reported in March 2017. He is Deputy Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and was a Board member of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).
Nick has an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Mathematical Economics and Statistics from Trinity College, Dublin.
